November Blooms.
The poet , Thomas Hood compose :
‘ No sun – no moon !
No morn -no midday !
No dawn- no dusk ! No proper time of day ! ’
The verse form finishes :
‘ No shade , no effulgence , no butterflies , no bees
No fruits , no flowers , no foliage , no hoot ,
November ! ’
I think this just about sums up the month for most of us gardener . Of course most of us still have flowers but we know they will soon be gone . I have no interest in out - of time of year flowers that are still hang on from summertime . Shakespeare said : ‘ At Christmas I no more want a rose than wishsnow in May ’s new - fangled glee . ’ I be given to agree with him .
Chrysanthemums have been out of fashion for some time but they are great for November colour . How lovely to have something to look forward to in this dismal month . I have one friend who hat the swelled bushy ones and another who loathes the ones with a lily-livered eye . I like them all . One of my favourites is the old variety , Chrysanthemum‘Emperor of China . ’ It does n’t spite either of my finicky friend ; its flowers are double with no eye and they are a gorgeous , softest pink colour . The leafage capture a nice autumn color too .
Mahonia x media‘Lionel Fortescue ’ is bet great now . It has ever - dark-green spiky leaves and upright racemes of bell - alike xanthous flowers . My garden had several gawky over -grown ones but they reply very well to being disregard down in the Spring to just above a bud . The next year they make a nice compact bush . For most of the year I think I do n’t want so many of these shrubs but at this meter of the year I am glad of them .
Every twelvemonth somebody writes to the national pressing to say that they have consider a very early snowdrop and this must be a result of global warming and topsy – turvey season . Well it is no such thing . I have a snowdrop in flower now and every twelvemonth in November because this is the time of year for it to bloom . It isGalanthus elwesyii‘Barnes ’ and it is gorgeous .
I do have some out of time of year treasures too which despite my press on enjoy flowers in time of year are giving me a mountain of delight at the moment . Astrantia major‘Abbey Road ’ has no right field to be see as good as belatedly as this . It is a new variety with bass ruby red flowers .
Tulbaghia violaceais a South African bulb which usually flowers in late summer into autumn . Its pretty star form blossom aroma of onion but they are delicious . They are still going strong but we have n’t had any frost yet so perhaps that is why . The bulbs need full sunlight and perhaps thick mulch as frost protective cover .
Finally , despite agreeing with Shakespeare about unseasonal roses I have to let in a photo of the lovely rise ‘ New Dawn ’ which does n’t seem to have noticed that it is November .
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